We’re now in the eighth week of a two-week ceasefire with Iran. The Trump Administration is stuck in a holding pattern as Iranian negotiators continue to ignore US redlines and both sides insist on ...

On June 10, Kyle Kondik of Sabato’s Crystal Ball joined AEI’s John C. Fortier, Chris Stirewalt, and Sean Trende to preview the 2026 midterm elections. Mr. Trende began by summarizing the numerous ...

The Summer Honors Program at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is an intensive, fully-funded educational and professional development opportunity for top undergraduate students. Situated in the ...

AEI scholars are committed to making the intellectual, moral, and practical case for expanding freedom, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening the free enterprise system in America and ...

If the economic optimists are correct, GenAI—like such predecessors as industrial electrification, the internal combustion engine, and the computer—will be so broadly and usefully adopted that it ...

The international committee responsible for the official scenarios that feed into climate modeling that are the basis for most projective climate research and the assessments of the Intergovernmental ...

Competition involving the Gulf states and Turkey in the Horn of Africa is exacerbating preexisting African conflicts and risking a regional proxy war on both sides of the Red Sea. A new era of ...

Although national test scores provide clear evidence on student achievement across time, they do not illuminate what is driving gains or losses. Nonetheless, careful examination of test scores can ...

While most Americans are dissatisfied with the direction of the country, they are optimistic about life in their communities and their ability to achieve the American dream. Most people say their ...

A growing body of research estimates that the US faces a severe housing shortage, with missing homes numbering between 3.8 million and 8.2 million. Using the midpoint—approximately six million missing ...

The Workforce Futures Initiative is a research collaboration among the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution, and the Project on Workforce at Harvard Kennedy School’s Malcolm Wiener ...

Despite decades of spending, tens of millions of Americans do not have adequate access to primary care (particularly in rural areas), a number that is projected to continue growing. A large and ...